From d0bf273d7be90f2c4e88d78372248ae19caae913 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Bezanson <jeff.bezanson@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 17:06:21 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] deprecate `read`, `readstring`, and `eachline` with Cmd and
 stdin arguments

remove unused/unexported `writeall`, fixes #18834
---
 base/deprecated.jl                          |  4 ++++
 base/process.jl                             | 19 +++++--------------
 doc/src/manual/running-external-programs.md |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/base/deprecated.jl b/base/deprecated.jl
index 33d9d780f16a2b..ec1e19e884cc92 100644
--- a/base/deprecated.jl
+++ b/base/deprecated.jl
@@ -1577,6 +1577,10 @@ end
 @deprecate is_unix    Sys.isunix
 @deprecate is_windows Sys.iswindows
 
+@deprecate read(cmd::AbstractCmd, stdin::Redirectable) read(pipeline(stdin, cmd))
+@deprecate readstring(cmd::AbstractCmd, stdin::Redirectable) readstring(pipeline(stdin, cmd))
+@deprecate eachline(cmd::AbstractCmd, stdin; chomp::Bool=true) eachline(pipeline(stdin, cmd), chomp=chomp)
+
 # END 0.7 deprecations
 
 # BEGIN 1.0 deprecations
diff --git a/base/process.jl b/base/process.jl
index e4068caec9f973..07dc47ceb4d779 100644
--- a/base/process.jl
+++ b/base/process.jl
@@ -553,16 +553,15 @@ spawn_opts_inherit(in::Redirectable=RawFD(0), out::Redirectable=RawFD(1), err::R
 spawn(cmds::AbstractCmd, args...; chain::Nullable{ProcessChain}=Nullable{ProcessChain}()) =
     spawn(cmds, spawn_opts_swallow(args...)...; chain=chain)
 
-function eachline(cmd::AbstractCmd, stdin; chomp::Bool=true)
+function eachline(cmd::AbstractCmd; chomp::Bool=true)
     stdout = Pipe()
-    processes = spawn(cmd, (stdin,stdout,STDERR))
+    processes = spawn(cmd, (DevNull,stdout,STDERR))
     close(stdout.in)
     out = stdout.out
     # implicitly close after reading lines, since we opened
     return EachLine(out, chomp=chomp,
         ondone=()->(close(out); success(processes) || pipeline_error(processes)))::EachLine
 end
-eachline(cmd::AbstractCmd; chomp::Bool=true) = eachline(cmd, DevNull, chomp=chomp)
 
 # return a Process object to read-to/write-from the pipeline
 """
@@ -642,22 +641,14 @@ function readandwrite(cmds::AbstractCmd)
     return (processes.out, processes.in, processes)
 end
 
-function read(cmd::AbstractCmd, stdin::Redirectable=DevNull)
-    procs = open(cmd, "r", stdin)
+function read(cmd::AbstractCmd)
+    procs = open(cmd, "r", DevNull)
     bytes = read(procs.out)
     success(procs) || pipeline_error(procs)
     return bytes
 end
 
-function readstring(cmd::AbstractCmd, stdin::Redirectable=DevNull)
-    return String(read(cmd, stdin))
-end
-
-function writeall(cmd::AbstractCmd, stdin::AbstractString, stdout::Redirectable=DevNull)
-    open(cmd, "w", stdout) do io
-        write(io, stdin)
-    end
-end
+readstring(cmd::AbstractCmd) = String(read(cmd))
 
 """
     run(command, args...)
diff --git a/doc/src/manual/running-external-programs.md b/doc/src/manual/running-external-programs.md
index c1840aafce31a8..f8a75851b98fbe 100644
--- a/doc/src/manual/running-external-programs.md
+++ b/doc/src/manual/running-external-programs.md
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ will attempt to store the data in the kernel's buffers while waiting for a reade
 Another common solution is to separate the reader and writer of the pipeline into separate Tasks:
 
 ```julia
-writer = @async writeall(process, "data")
+writer = @async write(process, "data")
 reader = @async do_compute(readstring(process))
 wait(process)
 fetch(reader)